Amityville: The Awakening
Directed by Franck Khalfoun
- CallumDecember 21, 2025⭐⭐½ — Amityville: The Awakening — Serviceable Haunting, Better in Company This entry in the long-running Amityville lineage is… fine. Not bad, not great — very much a middle-of-the-road horror that you’ll likely forget a few weeks after watching. What does linger are the performances: Bella Thorne does solid work grounding the film emotionally, and Jennifer Jason Leigh brings a level of seriousness that helps keep the whole thing from slipping into outright B-movie territory. As a scare factor, it didn’t really land for me — but that comes with the caveat that I’m pretty desensitised to horror. Interestingly, a couple of friends couldn’t make it through, which suggests it may still hit the right nerve for viewers who are more affected by slow-burn tension and creeping unease. The pacing is definitely on the sluggish side, though, and that makes it hard to recommend as a solo rewatch. Where it does work is as a social horror pick. On a horror night with friends, pizza, and a few beers, it’s a perfectly acceptable choice — familiar enough not to confuse, spooky enough to prompt reactions, and not so intense that it kills conversation. In that context, it earns its keep. 🍕🍺 Pairing: Pizza and beer — this one works best as communal horror rather than something to analyse too closely alone.
Amityville: The Awakening Trivia
Amityville: The Awakening was released on June 30, 2017.
Amityville: The Awakening was directed by Franck Khalfoun.
Amityville: The Awakening has a runtime of 86m.
Amityville: The Awakening was produced by Jason Blum, Casey La Scala, Daniel Farrands.
A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real-life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son. Things go horribly wrong.
The key characters in Amityville: The Awakening are Belle Walker (Bella Thorne), James Walker (Cameron Monaghan), Joan Walker (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
Amityville: The Awakening is rated PG-13.
Amityville: The Awakening is a Horror, Thriller film.
Amityville: The Awakening has an audience rating of 3.2 out of 10.
Amityville: The Awakening has made $8.5M at the box office.